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Some of what you say is off base in my experience, so I suspect you haven't actually done it, correct?
Although in the end it's up to the nanny and the parents (not us) to determine what works for them. [/quote]

Which specific items do you think are "off base" from your experience?[/quote]
It doesn't matter because the point is that one size does not fit all. If we list some specifics to consider, that's perfectly fair. But to present a long list of "have to's" leads me to think that you've never done it.

True?

You may want to think that you know what you're talking about, but unless you've done it, you don't. You can only imagine. Maybe you didn't mean to come off that way.
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Well...the specific points do matter, I think? What I listed above would be my expectations if I were hiring a NWOC or if I wanted to be a NWOC. If you found a nanny who refused to provide her own gear or who demanded her child get nap time priority, then you'd 1) be correct in saying it would be more like a share and you'd be due for a bigger discount and 2) be correct in saying it wasn't likely to work out. Of course it comes down to families, nannies, and the perfect fit, but I do think baseline expectations are fair and these are the ones I personally believe are non-negotiable. Otherwise, yeah, it isn't likely to work out.

I have not worked as a NWOC, but (as I am tired of saying in so many threads, as I'm sure some of you are tired of reading) I grew up in the UK, with nannies, one of whom brought her own child. These were the expectations my parents held her to.[/quote]
Actually, I'm not tired of reading YOUR posts as they are invariably well-reasoned and you don't waive around your employers' titles as a badge.

Just a note to say that parent partners in shares do provide their own gear (who else would provide it then? the host family isn't expected to provide two of everything, now are they).  Also, share kids tend to (not always, but commonly) are very close in age, so the topic of who gets to nap first usually doesn't come up as both kids are on the same schedule. And in fact, both of experienced nannies in shares I've been in got kids on the same routine in a matter of days as their first priority.  If you have an infant and a toddler, that's different, but shares usually (not always) would have two infants OR two toddlers. It's uncommon to have two kids with wild variation in ages in one share.[/quote]

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